Hi GNUbie, > That is what I want to achieve, to reduce the installation size to my > target machine (which is not my laptop). My target machine to install > a stripped down GNU/Linux (hopefully it will be EmDebian) may be an > AMD64 on a mini-ITX motherboard. I am planning to use a Disk-On-Module > IDE flash to store the system.
What is the size of the DOM IDE flash? A minimum Etch built by debootstrap is about 150M. Adding xfce4 probably increases the size to 500M. Using squashfs reduces about 50% or more than 250M. Emdebian only makes sense if your flash storage is 16M or less. Bao -- Best Regards. Bao C. Ha Hacom OpenBrick Distributor USA http://www.hacom.net voice: (714) 564-9932 8D66 6672 7A9B 6879 85CD 42E0 9F6C 7908 ED95 6B38 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
